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Sea Isle City police find no evidence that firefighters planned not to respond to fires

SEA ISLE CITY - City police this week said they have found no
malfeasance in their investigation of the Volunteer Fire
Company.

Police Detective Lt. Kirk Rohrer said police plan to return
oversight of the fire company back to the nonprofit group's chief
and officers within the next three weeks.

Mayor Leonard Desiderio took the extraordinary step in January
of invoking an executive order placing police Chief Thomas D'Intino
in charge of the fire company after an internal personnel feud led
to rumblings - so far proved unfounded, police said - that
firefighters would not respond to fires.

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Rohrer said he interviewed nearly all of the company's 33
members and each said he would respond immediately to a fire or
city emergency.

"The Fire Department has been very cooperative," Rohrer said.
"All the members are dedicated people who have Sea Isle City's
interests at heart."

Rohrer said nothing in his investigation warrants the filing of
any criminal charges. The department is working with the fire
company to update its bylaws, which have remained unchanged since
they were drafted in 1896.

The squabble began when Fire Chief John Mazurie overturned
disciplinary action meted out against his son, Lt. John Mazurie
Jr., by other senior officers in the fire company.

Two longtime members of the fire company, Keith B. Larsen and
Lt. Ronald Vansant, resigned over the dispute in January, but
Desiderio has urged them to wait until the police investigation is
complete to give them time to reconsider.

Rohrer said he is meeting with the fire company's bylaws
committee to update the company's rules, which will address
conflicts of interest and other policies that are commonly employed
by modern fire companies.

Desiderio said the investigation's preliminary findings are not
surprising.

"I think it was just some of the men being a little upset and
insinuating they would not respond. But that's not the case.
They're dedicated to this great fire department and the city," he
said. He said he expects to rescind the executive order in the next
three weeks.

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